If truth be told, it all feels a bit surreal and very un-Scottish. A 3000-mile road trip to Tbilisi for a match which no longer matters, when it ought to be a trip towards absolute terror.
Under normal circumstances Scotland’s players would arrive in the Georgian capital this morning, with a knot in the pit of their stomachs along with the clawing fear it could still go horribly wrong.
Because it almost always does. But Steve Clarke has changed all of that, over the course of his four-and-a-half years at the helm.
Where once qualification for the biggest events seemed like a long lost distant memory, now Clarke is doing it with two games still to spare.
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